Evan Carmichael tells Jeff Bezos' story: a Wall Street VP who quit to start Amazon in Seattle, betting on risk over regret. Bezos sold his possessions and invested his savings. The message: go for it now or spend your life asking what if.
Don't live your life full of regrets. If there's something that you want, if there's some passion that you have that you want to chase, you owe it to yourself to go for it. Because otherwise you're going to spend the rest of your life wondering what could have happened. Hi, I'm Evan Carmichael. I believe that hungry entrepreneurs deserve help, and I want to share with you the story of Jeff Bezos from Amazon.com. Bezos seemed to have everything lined up for him for corporate America success. He went to Princeton University, he got a job on Wall Street, he became the youngest ever VP at that company and was on the fast track for success in the corporate world. And he left it all to start a dot-com business selling books. And this was the early days of dot-com. Nobody knew what it was and said, "Jeff, you're crazy. What are you doing?" You're leaving this high-paying job, you're the youngest ever VP at this company, and you're throwing it all away to start this dot-com business selling books online? Who's going to buy books online? You're crazy! But he had to do it. He did it because he said he would regret for the rest of his life if he didn't try. He was willing to accept trying and failing and going back to his job. Than not trying at all and having to live with that regret. So he sold everything. He invested his life savings into this new business. He borrowed his stepfather's 1988 Chevy Blazer and drove to Seattle and started Amazon.com. Now his dreams came true. They may not always happen, but if you want something, if you have a deep passion for something, You have to go for it. You have to try. You owe it to yourself to try. Because otherwise you will spend the rest of your life wondering what could have happened. Living with that regret of not giving it your all. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. It really makes me want to do more videos for you. And if you have a comment about this video or a question for your company, I'd love to try to answer it for you if you leave it in the comment section below. I always read those and I really love seeing them come in. So thank you, and I'll see you on the next episode.
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